MOST in the Summer

描述（由申请人提供）：MOSTSummer项目建立在伊利诺伊大学芝加哥牙科学院现有的博士生和博士后培训机会的基础上。拟议的项目将为10名本科生提供密集的指导研究经验，再加上职业发展和其他补充活动。该计划将创建作为MOST研究管道的延伸，该管道旨在招募，培训和安置个人从事口腔健康事业，特别是那些在学术机构。因此，它将完全融入伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的医学校园，允许参与者获得完整的培训机会，并与MOST项目的博士前和博士后预约的长期受训者整合。其假设是，在个人早期教育阶段提供夏季研究机会将增加研究培训项目的申请人数量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MOSTSummer Program builds on existing training opportunities in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry for predoctora and postdoctoral fellows. The proposed project will provide intensive mentored research experiences for 10 undergraduate students coupled with career development and other supplementary activities. The program will create serve as an extension of the MOST research pipeline, a pipeline that is intended to recruit, train and place individuals in oral health career, particularly those in academic institutions. As such, it will be fully integrated into the medical campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, allowing participants access to a full menu of training opportunities and to integration with long-term trainees in the predoctoral and postdoctoral appointments in the MOST Program. The hypothesis is that providing summer research opportunities to individuals earlier in their education will increase the applicant pool t research training programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The proposed project will provide summer research experiences for 10 undergraduate students. The goal is to encourage and develop individuals to pursue careers in oral health research.